I would prefer Force build to be the default because if my imperfect clicking causes an overlap with, let's say, my rail signals, I want that to fail. I would therefore use the keybind for Force build every time just to save myself the frustration. If they change nothing, we'll still be able to chan...

+1

This is already frustrating without all 16 directions.

Two entities I'm thinking of: One is a restrictive signal that acts like a rail signal to trains with lengths at or below the limit and acts like a rail chain signal to everything else. This would allow long trains to pass through but not stop. This might be useful for intersections that allow short...

This would significantly increase the chance of personal robots becoming deadlocked. More frustrating than it's worth.

I didn't even realize that was an option.

+1 because that's how that should work.

I'm trying to understand what you did that wasn't working. Did you put down an inserter ghost and the robots didn't place the inserter?

Illiander42 wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:24 pm

This is a wonderful idea with a terrible justification.

Please validate my suggestion with a better use case. Thanks!

What ? Add an option to enable/disable "Request from buffer chests" on requester chests via the circuit network. Why ? When manually accessing requester chests, new requests are sent while you're digging through the chest. This causes it to double some requests, leading to unnecessary buf...

I kind of like the idea of this being on the shortcut bar so you can turn off turret alerts PER MAP. You might not want them on your own map but need them on the map you share with friends, for instance.

Currently, if a process slows or stops, input belts will backup and be fully packed. If the stacks aren't full, then the belt will not be fully packed. My question is, how will this affect throughput? I don't see it having any significant impact once the process is running again, and if the process ...

There are so many transportation mods that I would be surprised if the devs added a faster option than the spidertron. If you really are spending too much time travelling, I recommend the Teleporters mod.

I'm not seeing this behavior from splitters. Mine are working exactly how you said you want them to. Are you playing with mods? One of your mods may be breaking the splitter.

Illiander42 wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:28 pm

I'm sure I've seen a post here asking for proper VCS for blueprints that includes stuff like this.

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Alternately flipping drills to keep their connections lined up would be a pain. A blueprint would have to have an even number of drills to be tileable. one of the last FFF revealed that they have fixed flipping and mirroring fluid inputs and outputs so I think that it would be fine in that regard I...

Alternately flipping drills to keep their connections lined up would be a pain. A blueprint would have to have an even number of drills to be tileable.

This could be done without the game identifying any dependencies. Instead, offer a mod list and the user can check the ones they want. If someone has the blueprint without the required mods, add an alert icon to the blueprint. They can open the blueprint to see what mods are missing. The game doesn'...

Last I checked, all mods that offer belt balancing functionality have some truly horrible UPS problems that makes using them effectively a non-starter. Is there some reason why a Wube implementation would be similarly poorly optimized? If not, I wouldn't worry about how mods perform when considerin...

This can be done using the 2.0 preview mod, which is at https://mods.factorio.com/mod/pigo-selector-combinator. I use it to calculate the total volume of my trains, giving only my total inventory slots as a constant (40 * wagonCount). Give it a try.

TL;DR Users can more easily resolve keybind conflicts if they have more information. keybind_sharing.png What? Any keybind that is used for multiple actions should change from grey to blue. This indicates there may be a conflict. The game does not need to determine whether a conflict exists. When t...